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same more ancient literature in view. There is yet another differ- 

 ence. The first Praticakhya appears to relate throughout to the 

 Sanhita of the Rik in all his examples which he chooses, and sometimes 

 even quotes its hymns after their authors, for example II. 7. Gotame 

 chaminanta, with Gotama the last a in aminanta with an Anunasika 

 before the vowel e. (The quotation relates to Rik, I. h. 79. 2.) Though 

 the second book does not mention any source for its quotations, yet 

 I am lead to believe, that by far the greatest number originates from 

 the Sanhita of Rik, notwithstanding the circumstance that according 

 to Indian tradition the zeal for the Vagasaneya Sanhita and the 

 Catapatha Brahmana is only ascribed to the school of Madyandina. 



The Oxford Praticakhya on the contrary, not only shows an immense 

 difference in the choice of its quotations, but it also very frequently 

 gives beginnings and names of sections, whose examples it quotes, 

 among the latter, for example : grahaukhya yagyas certain Chapters 

 of the Taittiriya Sanhita bear these liturgic denominations. I have had 

 no opportunity to investigate, whether these examples may be found in 

 the respective parts of the above mentioned Sanhita, the same denomi- 

 nations probably apply to the Vagasaneyi. But that the Taittiriya San- 

 hita is rather the source of Praticakhya, appears to me probable, from 

 the naming of Taittiriyaka in some of his Sutras, which treat of sound 

 and pronunciation. (II. 11.) Notwithstanding this difference, there is of 

 course very frequently an identity of examples, which can be very sim- 

 ply explained from the fact that both collections of Yajur have a great 

 number of sections in common with the Riksanhita. The author of the 

 commentary to this book appears to be, as I have already mentioned, 

 to be another than Uvata. From the quotations at the end of book from 

 Garuda Purana, Devi Purana, Brahma Purana and Bavishya Purana, we 

 can guess of the time when he lived. The difference of these books then 

 appears to arise by no means from the fact that they give a grammar, 

 which in point of matter greatly differs one from another, and is 

 based on different Vedaic books, but on the contrary their contents 

 are essentially the same, if we do not speak of mere superficial differ- 

 ences, as in all the Veda writings it is the same style throughout found, 

 their difference results only from the more or less exclusive use of the one 

 or the other book in the choice of the document and from the manner 

 of treatment, as of course in different schools it must be different. 



